For when the person lacks capacity to undertake advance care planning

This guide covers five areas that relate to making medical treatment decisions for a person who lacks medical decision making capacity to consent to their own treatment or to refuse that treatment:

• How should medical decisions be made?
• How can the medical treatment decision maker know what the person would want?
• What challenges can a medical treatment decision maker expect?
• What is the form ‘What I understand to be the person’s preferences and values’?
• How are a person’s preferences and values translated into a medical treatment plan?

The form, ‘What I understand to be the person’s preferences and values’, is available to download from the Northern Health website.